Honeywell

Lead Electrical Engineer

Honeywell • $110K — $130K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
  • 6+ years of experience in multidisciplinary capital projects with design accountability.
  • Experience in developing electrical systems for packaged equipment or energy infrastructure solutions.
  • Proficiency in reading and creating technical diagrams, including P&IDs and control narratives.
  • Knowledge of safety practices and engineering codes related to hazardous locations.
  • Experience throughout the project lifecycle from design to commissioning.
  • Strong skills in technical writing, problem-solving, and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop electrical components for gas skid and station projects.
  • Lead projects by managing budgets, timelines, and resources.
  • Translate customer specifications into integrated control solutions.
  • Ensure compliance with electrical codes and safety regulations.
  • Conduct feasibility studies and analyze technical requirements.
  • Coordinate safety and functional considerations with engineering authorities.
  • Manage project documentation and technical scope, schedule, and risks.

Benefits

  • Employer-subsidized medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
  • 401(k) matching and flexible spending accounts.
  • Health savings accounts and employee assistance program (EAP).
  • Educational assistance and paid parental leave.
  • Paid time off for vacation, personal business, and sick leave.
  • 12 paid holidays throughout the year.
Full Job Description
Job Description

As a Lead Electrical Engineer here at Honeywell, you will play a key role in leading and managing electrical engineering projects. You will be responsible for overseeing the design, development, and implementation of electrical systems and components. The Lead Electrical Engineer owns the design of integrated gas skid and station solutions that support safe, reliable fuel-gas supply for mission-critical data center gas power infrastructure. Fuel gas skids and station solutions include fuel gas conditioning skids, gas flow metering skids, pressure regulation and monitoring skids and gas composition analysis stations. This role delivers safe, reliable, constructible, and cost-effective designs for large projects. Delivering complete and accurate design packages on schedule while ensuring compliance with customer, safety, quality, and regulatory requirements; minimizing design-related rework during fabrication, installation, and commissioning; effectively managing technical risk, scope, cost, schedule, and interfaces; and driving continuous improvements through standardization, design reuse, and enhanced engineering efficiency.

Success in this role is demonstrated through delivering complete and accurate work on schedule while ensuring compliance with customer, safety, quality, and regulatory requirements and minimizing rework while effectively managing technical risk, scope, cost, schedule, and interfaces and driving continuous improvements through standardization, design reuse, and enhanced engineering efficiency.

You will report directly to our General Manager, and you'll work out of our Houston, TX location on a Hybrid work schedule. Hybrid Work Schedule Note: For the first 90 days New Hires must be prepared to work 100% onsite Monday - Friday.

Responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Design and develop electrical system components and technical execution for large gas skid or station projects supporting data center applications.
    • Lead and manage electrical engineering projects from conception to completion by managing project budgets, timelines, and resources.
    • Translate customer specifications, process requirements, mechanical designs, equipment data, and site constraints into an integrated controls solution.
    • Ensure compliance with electrical codes, standards, and regulations
    • Conduct feasibility studies and analyze technical requirements
    • Coordinate hazardous-area requirements, functional-safety considerations, equipment ratings, grounding, power, signal segregation, cybersecurity requirements, and environmental conditions with the responsible engineering and safety authorities.
    • Lead design reviews, technical clarifications, risk assessments, interface reviews, and constructability discussions with customers and multidisciplinary project teams.
    • Review supplier proposals, calculations, drawings, software documentation, and technical submittals for compliance with project specifications, quality expectations, schedule, and cost targets.
    • Manage technical scope, schedule commitments, risks, assumptions, changes, and configuration control while maintaining accurate project documentation.
    • Drive standardization, modularization, lessons learned, and continuous improvement across the gas skid and station portfolio.


Qualifications

YOU MUST HAVE
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related technical discipline.
• 6 or more years of experience supporting complex, multidisciplinary capital projects with accountability for design, technical scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk.
• Progressive experience designing and developing electrical systems and components for packaged equipment, process skids, metering or regulation stations, power generation, energy infrastructure, or comparable engineered-to-order solutions.
• Ability to read and develop piping and instrumentation diagrams, control narratives, cause-and-effect matrices, I/O lists, instrument data sheets, loop diagrams, wiring drawings, and system architecture documents.
• Knowledge of applicable safety practices, hazardous or classified-location design principles, and engineering codes and standards.
• Experience supporting multidisciplinary projects through design, procurement, fabrication, testing, installation, and commissioning.
• Strong technical writing, problem-solving, stakeholder-management, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and travel to supplier, customer, fabrication, and project sites as required.

WE VALUE

Experience with natural-gas metering and regulation stations, fuel-gas systems for reciprocating engines or gas turbines, data center critical infrastructure, or mission-critical facilities.
• Familiarity with applicable ISA, IEC, API, AGA, and customer-specific requirements.
• Experience with control-system software development, simulation, testing, and version control.
• Experience with modular, prefabricated, or engineered-to-order equipment and supplier integration.
• Professional Engineer licensure, Engineer-in-Training certification, Certified Automation Professional credential, or equivalent technical certification.

Relocation support may be provided

Due to compliance with U.S. export control laws and regulations, candidate must be a U.S. Person, which is defined as, a U.S. citizen, a U.S. permanent resident, or have protected status in the U.S. under asylum or refugee status or have the ability to obtain an export authorization.

BENEFITS OF WORKING FOR HONEYWELL
In addition to a competitive salary, leading-edge work, and developing solutions side-by-side with dedicated experts in their fields, Honeywell employees are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package. This package includes employer subsidized Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance; Short-Term and Long-Term Disability; 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts, EAP, and Educational Assistance; Parental Leave, Paid Time Off (for vacation, personal business, sick time, and parental leave), and 12 Paid Holidays. Learn more (https://benefits.honeywell.com/)

The application period for the job is estimated to be 40 days from the job posting date; however, this may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. Job Posting Date: September 30, 2026

THE BUSINESS UNIT
Honeywell Industrial Automation enables process industry operations, creates world-class sensor technologies, automates supply chains, makes warehouses smarter, and improves worker safety. This combination builds on our core strengths in controls and automation technologies which in turn allows us to deliver better commercial outcomes for our customers. We enable customers to enhance the safety, sustainability, resiliency and productivity of their people, plants and assets.

About Honeywell

Honeywell Aerospace is an American company that manufactures aircraft engines, avionics, auxiliary power units (APUs), and other aviation products. The company’s product portfolio includes space equipment, turbine engines, auxiliary power units, brakes, wheels, synthetic vision, runway safety systems and other avionics. President Barack Obama awarded a Honeywell employee the National Medal of Technology for his contributions to air flight safety technology. The company also owns a number of patents related to NextGen technology, aircraft windshields, turbochargers, and more. Honeywell Aerospace was founded in 1936 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Net Income
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Founded
1906
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